20 Jan Screening and Assessment Tools

                       SOCW–6111:  ADVANCED CLINICAL SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE I

Discussion: Screening and Assessment Tools

What is important to know and when is it important to know it? To intervene in a problem, a social worker must first identify the problem. Screening and initial assessment can be useful to identity individuals who may be experiencing mental health concerns and could benefit from seeing a clinical social worker. This then would lead to a more comprehensive assessment from which a treatment plan is built. However, deciding who to assess, when, and using which tools can feel like a confusing process. For example, should you provide depression screenings in the community to people who are not clients? Should you screen all new clients for substance abuse regardless of presenting problem? Should you ask about suicide in every session or only when it feels like it could be a concern?

For this Discussion, review the following resources and consider the different screening and assessment tools currently available. Identify the tools you think you would be most likely to use in your practice.

 

American Psychiatric Association. (2018). Online assessment measures. Retrieved from https://www.psychiatry.org/psychiatrists/practice/dsm/educational-resources/assessment-measures#Disorder

 

Beidas, R. S., Stewart, R. E., Walsh, L., Lucas, S., Downey, M. M., Jackson, K., … & Mandell, D. S. (2015). Free, brief, and validated: Standardized instruments for low-resource mental health settings. Cognitive and behavioral practice, 22(1), 5-19. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4310476/ 

 

National Institute on Drug Abuse. (2019). Screening tools and prevention. Retrieved from https://www.drugabuse.gov/nidamed-medical-health-professionals/screening-tools-prevention 

 

By Day 3

Post. ( Note!!! PLEASE WRITE OUT EACH QUESTION BEFORE PROVIDING A RESPONSE) 

 

1. Which screening and/or assessment tool(s) you would use in your practice. 

2. Explain why you identified the specific instrument(s) given the type of practice and client population with whom you would like to work. 

3. Explain how and when you would use the tool(s). 

4. Explain how you would use the information gathered from the tool in a session.

 

Support your posts with specific references to this week’s resources. Be sure to provide full APA citations for your references

Note!!  “FEEDBACK RESPONSE FROM PROFESSOR from previous work. Remember to use headings for peer responses as well. To enhance your learning use multiple examples and reference multiple required and outside sources for the original and peer responses Nice Start

 

Note!!! Be sure to support your responses with specific references to the resources. If you are using additional articles, be sure to provide full APA-formatted citations for your references both within the text and on the referencing section.  PLEASE ALWAYS INCLUDE THE REQIRED TEXTBOOK as part of the references and if possible some of the REQUIRED READING if applicable. Please always start by referring to THE TEXTBOOK, Social Work Practice with Individuals and Families: Evidence-Informed Assessments and Interventions 2013

 

NOTE!!! Remember to synthesize/paraphrase the content you incorporate in your weekly discussion board responses and always cite appropriately according to APA conventions; it is your responsibility! Remember to use headings for all original and peer responses, as this is part of APA formatting. Please ensure you are proofing your work prior to submitting. TIP type your responses in a word document, so you can proofread then copy and paste the response into the discussion board forum.

 

 Required Readings 

 

Congress, E. (2013). Assessment of adults. In M. Holosko, C. Dulmus, & K. Sowers (Eds.), Social work practice with individuals and families: Evidence-informed assessments and interventions (pp. 125–145). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

 

Cowger, C. D. (1994). Assessing client strengths: Clinical assessment for client empowerment. Social Work, 39(3), 262– 268.

 

Plummer, S.-B., Makris, S., & Brocksen, S. M. (Eds.). (2014b). Social work case studies: Concentration year. Baltimore, MD: Laureate International Universities Publishing. [Vital Source e-reader].

 

• Mental Health Diagnosis in Social Work: The Case of Miranda (pp. 7–9)

 

Note: Depending on your concentration, you may not receive a case study book until a later term. Therefore, if you did not receive a copy of Social Work Case Studies: Concentration Year in your previous course, use the linked PDF provided here. If you did receive the book referenced above, you may find the cases there or use the PDF.

 

Hawkins, R. L., & Kim, E. J. (2012). The socio-economic empowerment assessment: Addressing poverty and economic distress in clients. Clinical Social Work Journal, 40(2), 194– 202.

 

Plummer, S.-B., Makris, S., & Brocksen, S. M. (Eds.). (2014a). Sessions: case histories. Baltimore, MD: Laureate International Universities Publishing. [Vital Source e-reader].

• The Cortez Family (pp. 23–25)

Resources for Discussion

 

American Psychiatric Association. (2018). Online assessment measures. Retrieved from https://www.psychiatry.org/psychiatrists/practice/dsm/educational-resources/assessment-measures#Disorder

 

Beidas, R. S., Stewart, R. E., Walsh, L., Lucas, S., Downey, M. M., Jackson, K., … & Mandell, D. S. (2015). Free, brief, and validated: Standardized instruments for low-resource mental health settings. Cognitive and behavioral practice, 22(1), 5-19. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4310476/ 

 

National Institute on Drug Abuse. (2019). Screening tools and prevention. Retrieved from https://www.drugabuse.gov/nidamed-medical-health-professionals/screening-tools-prevention